Calotropis| LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 299 
Wallich. Asclepias procera, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1263; Schumach. & 
Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 154. A. gigantea, Jacq. Obs. Bot. iii. 17, 
t. 69; Andrews, Bot. Rep. iv. t. 271; Brunner in Flora, 1840, 1. 
Beibl. 18. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands: Bolle! Welwitsch, 4180 Vogel, 
Krause, and Smith, 187 (ex Krause). North bank of the River Gambia, Ozanne, 3! 
Senegambia and Cape Verd, Brunner, 54! Senegal, Lepriewr, Robert (ex Decaisne). 
Fernando Po, Mann, 238! 
Nile Land. Nubia: El Mesherif, Schweinfurth, 586! Eritrea: Monkullo, 
near Massowa, Schweinfurth & Riva, 216! 236! Otumbo, Penzig; hills of Saati, 
Penzig; Arkiko, Penzig; Ghinda, Penzig; Keren, Penzig ; Kordofan, Kotschy, 
24*! Abyssinia: Hamedo Plain, Schimper, 920; near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 656 | 
Somaliland, Mies Edith Cole! Smith! Riva and Robecchi-Brichetti, 107 (ex 
Schumann). Uganda: Madi, Speke §& Grant, 163! near Lake Baringo, 3400 ft., 
Johnston / by the River Tarawell (Turkwel), 1500 ft., Hohnel. British Kast 
Africa: Witu, Thomas, 191! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1004! German East Africa: Lake 
Rukwa Region; near Manda Village in Umanda district, 2600 ft., Goetze, 1105 aR 
Schumann). 
Also extends through Egypt and Arabia into India. 
17. KANAHTA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 760. 
Calyx 5 partite. Corolla 5-lobed to half-way down or nearly to the 
base ; lobes ascending, spreading or reflexed, slightly overlapping to the 
left in the bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the staminal-column, 
either very thick and fleshy, solid and produced into a short horizon- 
tally inflexed subulate entire or bifid beak at the apex, or more or less 
complicate or cleft down the inner face. Staminal-column arising from 
the bottom of the corolla; anthers erect, with membranous appendages 
Inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary 
in each anther-cell, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by short 
orizontal caudicles. Apex of the style with a convex central pe 
surrounded by a depressed ring and with 5 very minute tubercles ¢ or 
to the pollen-carriers. Follicles fusiform-lanceolate or somewhat ovoid, 
somewhat rugulose (always ?), but not echinate. Seeds crowned with a 
tuft of hairs.—Shrubs with straight erect branches and milky Linas 
ves opposite, linear-lanceolate or linear, with minute ne — 
their axils. Inflorescence lateral at the nodes, with the pe “ie es 
Tacemosely scattered along the upper part of the branches ; saber 
spirally arranged around the slightly thickened apical part of tl 
peduncle, which becomes more or less elongated into a reauni ea a 
Pedicellate, bracteate, developing successively, never strictly umbe : e. 
oe 4, all very similar in general appearance and closely related, extending to 
Fabia. 
By its floral structure Kanahia cannot be distinguished from | Penne GET 
the one hand and Asclepias on the other. Yet as it is easily sw tig tyr t fans 
both those genera by its inflorescence and by the presence of minute bris 
. ae and 
axils of the leaves, I deem it best to retain it on those grounds. In Aselepias an 
